Corrected entry: During auditions, the Writer (Yurick) and the Casting Manager did not want Michael Beck as Swan, as he looked too old at age 27. The Warriors were all supposed to be 16 to 24. But Walter Hill was so impressed by Beck's performance in Xanadu and his audition for this film that he cast him anyway.
Gavin Jackson
26th Jan 2019
The Warriors (1979)
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Correction: Xanadu came out in 1980, one year after The Warriors, and Michael Beck has even stated that Xanadu "closed all the doors that Warriors opened". It's true that Walter Hill did see Beck in an earlier performance and gave him the role of Swan but it wasn't Xanadu. Also many would agree that Beck's performance in Xanadu was so bad that it wouldn't have even got him a McDonald's commercial.
Gavin Jackson